Nashua with Jim Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct
Photography of horse sports
This photograph features Nashua with his trainer James Edward 'Sunny Jim' Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct.
Fitzsimmons won 13 Triple Crown race (and trained two Triple Crown winners; Gallant Fox and Omaha) and trained 12 champions and 155 stakes-winning horses that won more than 470 stakes races. He was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1958.
Nashua, U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1954), U.S. Champion Three-Year-Old Colt (1955), and U.S. Horse of the Year (1955), nearly claimed the Triple Crown in 1955. He won both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes but placed second in the Kentucky Derby.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan B1736
1956-10-15
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Nashua
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Conformation photograph of the American Thoroughbred Nashua taken in December of 1955.
Nashua is typically linked with his rival – the 1955 Kentucky Derby winner, Swaps. Although Nashua claimed both the Belmont and Preakness Stakes in 1955, his possibility for a Triple Crown title was upset by Swaps’ Derby victory. Nashua won the seminal match race against Swaps later that year.
Nashua held the title of U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Colt in 1954 and was named U.S. Horse of the Year in 1955. He was owned by Belair Stud during his racing career, but Nashua was later purchased by a Leslie Combs II-led syndicate as the first Thoroughbred sold for over $1 million.
He retired to stud at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. He lived until the age of 30.
Joel Clyne Meadors
1955-12-08
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